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Old 04-06-2014, 14:49   #1004
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Re: Virgin Media 150Mb Coming 2014

Hundreds of thousands, taken in context, means less than a quarter in this case - which is what I stated. Which again, in context, is not "loads" IMO.

Would you call 100,000 grains of salt "loads"? (that's about 6KG by the way). Perhaps loads if you were looking at how much you ate in a meal. But a person loading up a supermarket shelf from a 500KG pallet would not call a single 6KG bag "loads". And that's what we're looking at here. Dealing with low double-digit percentages, or a hundreds of thousands out of of over 4 million. Their 2013 figures showed "hundreds of thousands" of customers joining or upgrading to 30Mb+ requiring DOCSIS 3 equipment each quarter - 209,000 in Q4 alone. Over the year, 90% of those moving to 30Mb+ were existing upgrades rather than new customers (900,000 in total) so clearly they have the supply chain and infrastructure and funding in place to allow such scale of upgrades and equipment replacements.
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